Can a GeForce 2 GTS 32 Mb crush a GeForce FX 5200 128 Mb?

[Duhard]

Well I just trashed my pos GeForce FX 5200 128 Mb cause I was having huge slowdowns while playing q3 and I don't have these slowdowns at all using my amazing GeForce 2 GTS.

How is this possible?

[4g3nt_Smith]

The fact that nVidia sucks in general, and that the 5200 sucks the most...

[Duhard]

yeah well I'm sorry but I got other things in life more important than a dual GeForce 6800 GT SLi...understand?

[YourGrandpa]

I just built a friend a system with dual BFG FX6800 Ultra O/Cs.

Also:
ASUS AN8-SLI Deluxe
AMD FX55
(4) 512mb PC4400 Corsair TWinx RAM
(2) 74gig SATA W/D 10,000rpm Raptors RAID 0
(1) 300gig SATA Seagate 7200rpm 16mb cache
Pioneer DVR-109
ect., ect....

Sweet PC.

[Magestic]

You should have used 2x 1Gb DDR...

[Duhard]

Thanks for all the advice guys :icon14:

[YourGrandpa]

NP...

[Deathshroud]

Whens the last time you formatted your drive? It can make a HUGE difference.

[o'dium]

Well I just trashed my pos GeForce FX 5200 128 Mb cause I was having huge slowdowns while playing q3 and I don't have these slowdowns at all using my amazing GeForce 2 GTS.

How is this possible?

The FX card has more things going on in the background that are just disabled and not there on a GF2. For example, something you can see, a fragment program. Fragment and Vertex programs are designed to do special effects, fast. Like heat haze, or steam, or water refraction etc etc. All this is done using F/V programs. Now, the FX line of cards can use FP/VP's, just not very fast. So, it will enable them and you will play along, and see those features, but your frame rate wont be so high. Playing with a GF2 in the same game, you wont see those features, you wont get as much going on "behind the scenes", but your frame rate will be much higher.

Its not that the GF2 owns the FX, its just that the GF2 has less to do simply because it cant do much to begin with, so its faster.

Now, with Quake 3, there isn't anything to do anyway. Its a thread bare, simple tech game with nothing going on thats any where close to being "advanced" in terms of how a GPU thinks. Its more than likely that when you removed your FX, you installed drivers in a different way (Or a different version for the GF2 card etc), and so the troubles you was having before will now be gone.

I would say if your 100% positive its not over heating, then format your rig, and re-install the FX card. If it still gives you trouble, then the card may be buggered.

[prince1000]

Thanks for all the advice guys :icon14:

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